Episode 195: Creating Work-Life Balance and Overcoming Guilt as a Healthcare Leader featuring Michele Derheim
Episode 195: Creating Work-Life Balance and Overcoming Guilt as a Healthcare Leader featuring Michele Derheim
In this podcast, we talk with our special guest Michele Derheim about her personal experience of work-life balance and overcoming the feeling of guilt as a healthcare leader.
Michele is a Clinical Nurse Director for the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), Pediatric Rapid Response Team, and Pediatric Dialysis Unit at the University of Michigan’s Mott Children’s Hospital.
She started working in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) directly out of nursing school and transitioned to the adult ICU. As a bedside nurse, Michele acted in charge nurse and staff educator roles, as well as teaching clinical groups of nursing students in their critical care rotations.
In this episode, Michele shares some important lessons about resilience, boundaries, and life priorities from her first formal leadership role.
She also shares how she applies the ‘Professional Life and Personal Life Polarity Map®’ as a tool to create and sustain dynamic balance in her life.
We also talk about how healthcare leaders struggle with feeling guilty for not being able to do more for their staff or being home more for their families and give some personal advice on overcoming the feeling of guilt.
In this podcast, you’ll hear:
04:42 - About Michele Derheim and how she chose to become a nurse
10:20 - Some of the lessons she learned about resilience in her first formal leadership role
13:01 - About the lessons she learned on the importance of boundaries
17:41 - About Michele’s email signature to maintain her personal work-life balance and what led her to add the statement
19:45 - Some lessons about the importance of life priorities
27:04 - How Michele applies the ‘Professional Life and Personal Life Polarity Map’ as a tool in creating and sustaining dynamic balance in her life
31:12 - Some advice for leaders who are struggling with guilt and how to overcome it
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